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03-16-05 | 10:28 PM
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question for the experts
Went to K-mart to pick up some golf balls for the sheila and went by the bike section.
Saw a dufus looking contraption that had massive tyres... nearly motor scooter size. Looked a bit like a BMX bike but didn't seem right.
Any theories?
Saw a dufus looking contraption that had massive tyres... nearly motor scooter size. Looked a bit like a BMX bike but didn't seem right.
Any theories?
03-16-05 | 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by HaagenDas
Went to K-mart to pick up some golf balls for the sheila and went by the bike section.
Saw a dufus looking contraption that had massive tyres... nearly motor scooter size. Looked a bit like a BMX bike but didn't seem right.
Any theories?
Saw a dufus looking contraption that had massive tyres... nearly motor scooter size. Looked a bit like a BMX bike but didn't seem right.
Any theories?
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Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
03-17-05 | 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by lauren
When the kids that are riding them now have grandkids they will be given no mercy for their funny old bike in the garage. Then they will become popular again. Ugh.
03-17-05 | 12:48 AM
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- - HaagenDas, is it true that folks overseas say that "Americans will buy anything"? There's the proof!
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"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." Ivan Illich ('Energy and Equity')1974
"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." Ivan Illich ('Energy and Equity')1974
03-17-05 | 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Gangrel
they are quite possibly the worst thing to ever happen to america
blame jesse james
blame jesse james
Blame the Discovery Channel.
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03-17-05 | 05:03 AM
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Not again! If topics like this keep coming up you guys are going to make me change my screen name, but I kind of like the idea. I must confess that I haven't tried riding one and I have no idea of where I would ever ride one or what possible use it might be. It's just rolling sculpture and I think it's cool.
How could chopper bicycles be "quite possibly the worst thing to happen to America" when we have George W Bush in the white house?
How could chopper bicycles be "quite possibly the worst thing to happen to America" when we have George W Bush in the white house?
03-17-05 | 07:15 AM
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Those bikes my not be the most useful, but if they get kids to turn off the video games and the computer they can't be that bad. Hey they might just be the kick that some kid needs to become addicticted to real bikes like us. 
03-17-05 | 12:04 PM
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You know, it looks like a stretched LSD version of the Schwinn my dad delivered papers on when he was a kid.
That big front non-linear spring used to amaze me...I was afraid to disassemble it!
That big front non-linear spring used to amaze me...I was afraid to disassemble it!
